Our take on the year's best
Every year, PW selects its top 100 books, and for the first time ever PW has upped the ante by choosing the 10 books that stood out from the rest. The titles, whittled down from the more than 50,000 volumes considered this year, were picked by the PW reviews editors to reflect the very best of 2009. Here, PW reviews the 10 books.
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by Catherine McKinnon
This is a wonderfully original story that celebrates the triumphs and disasters of family life
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Middlemarch presents a vast panorama of life in a provincial Midlands town. At the story’s center stands the intellectual and idealistic Dorothea Brooke. But the very qualities that set Dorothea apart from the materialistic, mean-spirited society around her also lead her into a disastrous marriage with a man she mistakes for her soul mate.
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Vampires may live forever, but the recent vampire trend in YA fiction won’t. Author Michael Grant, for one, is “sick to death of vampires,” and he is not alone. But when one hugely popular trend ends, what will take its place? Some readers have their fingers crossed for post-apocalyptic fiction.
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by Clive Cussler
Kurt Austin must stop a deadly virus from decimating the world in the latest NUMA Files novel.
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Breath Winner Miles Franklin award for Literature 2009
by Tim Winton
This slender book packs an emotional wallop. Two thrill-seeking boys, Bruce and Loonie, are young teenagers in smalltown Australia, circa the early 1970s. Their attraction is focused on the water—ponds, rivers, the sea—but they do little more than play around until they fall in with a mysterious, older man named Sando. He recognizes their daredevil wildness and takes it upon himself to teach them to surf. As the boys become more skilled, their exploits become more reckless; narrator Bruce (nicknamed Pikelet) has doubts about where all this is heading, while the aptly named Loonie wants only bigger and bolder thrills.
Home
by Marilynne Robinson
From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead
'Robinson makes us understand home isn’t just a place—it’s something we carry with us.'
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
Girl with the dragon tattoo
Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family's remote island retreat north of Stockholm, nor do fiction debuts hotter than this European bestseller by muckraking Swedish journalist Larsson.
Already being compared to The Da Vinci Code in Europe, this Swedish bestseller (first in a trilogy) has come to America.
The Fixer Upper
by Mary Kay Andrews
The delightful New York Times bestselling author returns with a hilarious novel about one woman's quest to redo an old house . . . and her life
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A 10-Year-Old’s Marching Orders for the Upcoming School Year
" ... kids function best when they're real clear about exactly what's expected of them ..."